1 Corinthians 4:15

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

Cross References

Galatians 4:19

My little children, with whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you!

1 Corinthians 3:10

According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and another man is building upon it. Let each man take care how he builds upon it.

1 Corinthians 9:23

I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings.

1 Corinthians 9:14

In the same way, the Lord commanded that those who proclaim the gospel should get their living by the gospel.

1 Peter 1:23

You have been born anew, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;

James 1:18

Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

Philemon 1:19

I, Paul, write this with my own hand, I will repay it—to say nothing of your owing me even your own self.

Titus 1:4

To Titus, my true child in a common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.

2 Timothy 4:3

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own likings,

1 Corinthians 9:18

What then is my reward? Just this: that in my preaching I may make the gospel free of charge, not making full use of my right in the gospel.

1 Corinthians 9:12

If others share this rightful claim upon you, do not we still more? Nevertheless, we have not made use of this right, but we endure anything rather than put an obstacle in the way of the gospel of Christ.

1 Corinthians 3:6

I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.

Romans 15:20

thus making it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has already been named, lest I build on another man's foundation,

Numbers 11:12

Did I conceive all this people? Did I bring them forth, that thou shouldst say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries the sucking child,’ to the land which thou didst swear to give their fathers?

1 Corinthians 1:30

He is the source of your life in Christ Jesus, whom God made our wisdom, our righteousness and sanctification and redemption;

1 Corinthians 3:8

He who plants and he who waters are equal, and each shall receive his wages according to his labor.

1 Corinthians 9:16

For if I preach the gospel, that gives me no ground for boasting. For necessity is laid upon me. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!

1 Corinthians 15:1

Now I would remind you, brethren, in what terms I preached to you the gospel, which you received, in which you stand,

2 Corinthians 4:5

For what we preach is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.

Galatians 3:24

So that the law was our custodian until Christ came, that we might be justified by faith.

Galatians 3:25

But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a custodian;